Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "The Legendary Napier Deltic - 88 Litre Opposed 2-Stroke Triangle Engine" video.

  1. When it comes complicated mechanical devices it seems Naiper's was smoking crack. I will give them credit though. Most of them worked.
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  2.  @AnthonyHandcock  A four crankshaft layout can easily run with all the cracks rotating the same direction. A three crank engine simply can't.
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  3. While CAD systems do make things easier in terms of doing the drawings and engineering calculations it doesn't take the place of imagination or intuition.
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  4.  @AndreiTupolev  BRM loved their excessively complicated but powerful Formula I engines didn't they. In the past I've made the arguement that Napier's Sabre as good as it was, was in truth an excessive waste of skilled manhours when the job could just as well have been done by Rolls Royce Griffin. After WWII Napier developed one of the most advanced piston engines for aircraft use ever built. The Nomad. Just in time for jets.
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  5. I wonder if the Deltic was the inspiration for Bill Lear's abortive Indianapolis 500 steam car. https://www.steamcarnetwork.com/blog/4153969
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